Students (or overseas students) on a full time or qualifying course of education are not counted.

A full time student is defined as someone who is enrolled in a full-time course of education at a prescribed educational establishment.

A full time course of education must last for at least one academic year or for at least one full calendar year for those educational establishments that do not have academic years;

Attend for at least 24 weeks in each academic or calendar year;

Study for at least 21 hours per week;

or a person under the age of 20 undertaking a qualifying course of education

a qualifying course is one which lasts for at least three calendar months, and is not a course of higher education;

must require at least 12 hours per week to be spent on the relevant activities of the course;

or a foreign language assistant.

are treated as students during any period that they are appointed at a school or other educational establishment anywhere in Great Britain;

must be registered with the British Council;

Student nurses studying academic courses at universities are classified as full time students.

Student nurses will be disregarded if they are completing a course leading to registration on any of parts 1 to 6, 8, 10 or 11 of the register maintained under section 10 of the nurses, midwives and health visitors act 1979, as a first inclusion on that register.

A person who is the spouse or dependant of a student is eligible for discount if the spouse or dependant is not a British citizen and is prevented by immigration regulations from taking paid employment or from claiming benefits whilst in the UK.

This class includes people who are detained by order of the court, whether they are in prison, in a hospital or in any other place.

It does not include people in police custody until they are remanded in custody by a court, but it does include detention under the Immigration Act 1971 (deportation) and under the Mental Health Act 1983.

The disregard does not apply if they have been sent to prison for non-payment of council tax or default in paying a fine. It does apply if they are in prison for non-payment of business rates.

The discount disregard applies to any person on whom privileges and immunities are granted by the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964, the Commonwealth Secretarial Act 1996, and the Consular Relations Act 1968 or the Commonwealth Countries and Republic of Ireland (Immunities and Privileges) Order 1985.

Further information

Please note: the above information is for guidance only and certain conditions may apply in order to qualify for a discount. If you require any further information on discounts, please contact the council tax team.